RMTS 2008 - Day 28 – Sambalpur facts

Monday, April 28, 2008

(RMTS stands for Rural Mathematics Talent Search. An initiative for Orissa’s secondary school students.)

It is already a 6 year old operation.

Dear Friends:
This is day 28 of campaign for AWARENESS FOR RMTS 2008, to be conducted for the 6th consecutive year.
Date of Test: 2nd November, 2008

Last date of Application: October 1, 2008

Achievements up to RMTS 2007:

RMTS 2005: Blocks covered: 58 No of centers : 81 Participation: 4678 Scholarships: 165

RMTS 2006 Blocks covered: 162 No of centers: 280 Participation: 19928 Scholarships: 201

RMTS 2007 Blocks covered: 200 No of centers: 354 Participation: 18887 Scholarships: 201

Goal for RMTS 2008
Blocks covered: 314
No of centers: 500
Participation: 125 per block(40 thou<) Scholarships: 201

Camp Plans:
6 camps for each batch. 1st batch (RMTS 2003) camps completed. The 1^st batch kids have reached 10^th grade and will be out of secondary schools, in 2008.
Math Olympiad Successes thus far:

Himalaya Niranjan Senapati of RMTS 2003 and Bhadrak district was selected for the Indian Astronomy Olympiad team. He went to Simeiz, Crimea, Ukraine in Europe and earned a silver medal. We are exited and we hope this tradition will continue
Web site: http://seedsnet.org/rmts1/RMTS/

All the help that some of you have extended, are bearing fruit.

What CAN YOU DO TO help? Call 509-371-1286 or e-mail, if you have questions:
Sambalpur (West Zone):

This district we have covered only 6 out of the 9 blocks this year. :

Total Number of Blocks in Sambalpur: 9(Nine)

RMTS 2005: Blocks Covered: 3 SAMBALPUR Centres: 1 No. of Students 226

RMTS 2006: Blocks Covered: 4 KUCHINDA, MANESWAR, RENGALI & SAMBALPUR Centres : 5 No. of Students : 361

RMTS 2007: Blocks Covered:6 , JAMANKIRA, JUJUMARA, KUCHINDA, , RENGALI, RERAKHOLE & SAMBALPUR, Centres: 7 No. of Students : 163

Blocks to be covered: 3

BAMRA, MANESWAR, NAKTIDEUL.

We have lost 1 blocks(MANESWAR) and need to make cover two more for full coverage of Sambalpur District in 2008. Any help WELCOME.

e-address of Sambalpur district Block Development Officers(BDO) provided. You can write to them and liaison with them.

I would appreciate if you write back to me and extend help by taking responsibility of one of 314 blocks, even if they are covered, or any way you like to contribute, so that we can run a quality RMTS 2007 truly unearthing rural talents, who otherwise will wither away.

Thanking you in advance.

Best wishes,
Sandip

28. Sambalpur (9) Red: o be covered this year

Block Development Officer Bamra Block, At/Po. Bamra, Dist. Sambalpur. 06642-229207(0ff.) ori-bamra@gramsat.nic.in	Block Development Officer Jamankira Block, At/Po. Jamankira, Dist. Sambalpur. 06649-234201(0ff.) ori-jamankira@gramsat.nic.in	Block Development Officer Jujumura Block, At/Po. Jujumura, Dist. Sambalpur. 06681-257609(0ff.) ori-jujumura@gramsat.nic.in
Block Development Officer Kuchinda Block, At/Po. Kuchinda, Dist. Sambalpur. 06642-220262(0ff.) ori-kuchinda@gramsat.nic.in	Block Development Officer Maneswar Block, At/Po. Maneswar, Dist. Sambalpur. 06663-2546019(0ff.) ori-maneswar@gramsat.nic.in	Block Development Officer Naktideul Block, At/Po. Naktideul, Dist. Sambalpur. 06647-246002(0ff.) ori-naktideul@gramsat.nic.in
Block Development Officer Rairakhole Block, At/Po. Rairakhole, Dist. Sambalpur. 06644-253015(0) ori-rairakhole@gramsat.nic.in	Block Development Officer Rengali Block,At/Po. Rengali, Dist. Sambalpur. 06663-2560543(0) ori-rengali@gramsat.nic.in	Block Development Officer Sambalpur, At/Po. Sambalpur, Dist. Sambalpur. 06663-2412721(0) ori-bsambalpur@gramsat.nic.in

E-mail list of BDOs of Blocks not covered:
ori-bamra@gramsat.nic.in

ori-maneswar@gramsat.nic.in

ori-naktideul@gramsat.nic.in

This Years winners from Rayagada district: 5 selected for RMTS Scholarships:

Rank	Name	School	Category
W19	Padmini Chhatria	Ekalabya Model Residential School,Bhawanipur	ST(Girl)
W28	Arpita Subhashree Biswal	Naulipada T.O.U.P.School	Girl
W46	Rishabha Agrawal	Laida Govt. Nodal U.P.School
W48	Manas Ranjan Nayak	Bhagipali U.P.School
W52	Rakesh Pradhan	Badakuda U.G.U.P.School